Outlines (Byrne/Malcolm/Ward/Nash/Brice/Lisle) (The Globe, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Sunday 26 March 2023) The brainchild of composer and saxophonist Dee Byrne, Outlines is a strong set of fascinating original compositions realised by something of a […]
An Audience with Father John Misty (Sage Gateshead, 13 March 2023. Report by AJ Dehany) “As you can tell from all the fake jazz music you heard earlier, I was really floundering […]
Christine Tobin – Returning Weather (Trail Belle Records TBR05. Review by AJ Dehany) Returning Weather is Irish composer-singer Christine Tobin’s nine-part meditation on the nature of home and homecoming. This fine evocative […]
Clown Core (Bimhuis, Amsterdam. 3 March 2023, 2nd night of 3. Live review by AJ Dehany) Any Dutch music festival is just one pumpkin away from a brain-melting musical aneurysm. At Rewire […]
Run Logan Run at Sage Two (Sage Gateshead, Sage Two, 18 February. Review by AJ Dehany) Run Logan Run, the longstanding duo of Andrew Hayes and Matt Brown, can certainly play. To […]
Peter Bruun, Søren Kjærgaard and Jonas Westergaard – Thēsaurōs (ILK341LP/ Album review by AJ Dehany) Thēsaurōs is a cathedral of sound with the architectural mastery of Wren, the mystical suggestiveness of Hawksmoor, […]
Sam Gendel – COOKUP (Nonesuch Records 7559790713. Album review by AJ Dehany) COOKUP, the latest batch from Sam Gendel, prolific multi-instrumentalist majoring in ‘saxofone’, is a microwave meal of an album that […]
ELDA – Collaborations 2020-2022 (7CD EP box set(*). Album review/ feature by AJ Dehany) NB also: Tour Dates imminent / listed below Collaborations 2020-2022 is a warm reminder of a moment when […]
Reis Demuth Wiltgen with Emile V. Schlesser — Synaesthesia ( SHUFFLE LX —Opderschmelz, Dudelange, Luxembourg. 26 November 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) “I can see colours dancing in my head. I […]
Bendik Giske (King’s Place Hall Two. 19 November 2022. Review by AJ Dehany) Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske’s performances are shamanic studies of physicality, vulnerability and endurance, made with just the body, breath, […]
Led Bib and Anthropods at the Vortex The true finale to the 2022 London Jazz Festival was an evening of completely new music from the mind of New Jersey-born drummer, composer and […]
LJN provides the most extensive review coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. By far. This year we will have done over thirty of them. We have also asked our writers and […]
Jazz Sabbath (Pizza Express Soho (2nd house) 16 November. Review by AJ Dehany) Adam Wakeman’s incendiary 2020 documentary “Before Black Sabbath: there was Jazz Sabbath”(LINK) broke a story that shocked the worlds […]
Chicago X London — Jeff Parker, Ben LaMar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, Alabaster DePlume (Barbican. 13 November 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) You could call 2022 the “Chicago Edition” of the […]
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music 2022 (Sunday 2 October. Day 4 Report by AJ Dehany) If you’re in Newcastle on a Sunday, you need to be at the Globe on […]
